Penelope Jane Smith (born 21 September 1958) is an English author, [2] television presenter, newsreader and radio presenter. She has presented for Sky News, GMTV, Classic FM, BBC Radio London, TalkRadio and is a regular contributor to TalkTV launched in April 2022. Smith is a current presenter of the weekday mid-morning show on Scala Radio and credits her favourite classical composer as Giacomo Puccini. Austin Mitchell – main presenter on Yorkshire Television's Calendar from 1969 until 1977. He then became best known as the Labour MP for Great Grimsby, a role he held from 1977 until 2015. He died in 2021. Lorraine Kelly – started as a reporter for Scottish Television; came to national attention by reporting on the Piper Alpha oil rig disaster in 1988. She has since presented Good Morning Britain, GMTV and Daybreak, and continues to host her own show Lorraine to this day. Bob Crampton – long-serving presenter and weather forecaster on ITV1 West, formerly HTV West, from 1983 until his retirement in 2018

Andrew Gardner – presented the first News at Ten with Alastair Burnet in 1967; following his retirement from ITN, he worked on Thames Television during the 1980s; died in 1999 l Country Channel TV broadcasts on six channels, covering 48 topics including farming, sports, food and the weather. Alison Holloway – worked initially as an announcer for Westward Television before joining HTV West, where she worked as an announcer and main presenter on HTV News during the 1980s.

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Tony Wayne Francis (born 1 April 1969 in South Australia) is a former Australian rules footballer in the Australian Football League. Leslie Mitchell – senior announcer for Associated-Rediffusion from 1955 until 1958. He had previously been the first-ever announcer on the then-fledgling BBC Television in 1936. He died in 1985. Londoner's Diary: Glamour and Trump at the Costa Book Awards party". Evening Standard. 1 February 2017 . Retrieved 18 August 2022.

Kirsty Young – joined STV in 1992 to present the main evening news programme, Scotland Today; moved to join ITV in 1999 and briefly became a co-presenter of the ITV News at 6:30 with Dermot Murnaghan in 2001, as well as the Channel 5 News; she later presented Desert Island Discs on BBC Radio 4 from 2006 until 2018. Angus Scott – regular sports presenter for HTV during the 1980s and 1990s: he frequently presented sports news on HTV News. He is the brother of Steve Scott. Shaw Taylor – continuity announcer on ATV during its early years. He was best known for presenting the long-running series 'Police 5' and 'Junior Police 5', which appealed to members of the public to watch out for criminals at work, from 1962 until 1992. He died in 2015.Smith appeared briefly as herself in the partially- improvised comedy 1994 film There's No Business..., which starred the comedy duos Raw Sex ( Simon Brint and Rowland Rivron) and The Oblivion Boys. I wished we had met more during the final months but just by speaking to him over the phone, he was clearly under the weather and needed plenty of rest. The Covid-19 pandemic didn’t help either. Chris Morgan (journalist) – reporter for Thames News and TV-am during the 1990s, having previously been a main presenter on the BBC's Wales Today. He died in 2008.

Judy Finnigan – originally a researcher at Granada Television from 1971, she joined Anglia Television in 1974 as its first female reporter. She returned to Granada in 1980 as a reporter and presenter on Granada Reports. She is best known for presenting This Morning from its inception in 1988 until 2001, then Richard and Judy on Channel 4 from 2001 until 2008, both of these alongside her husband, Richard Madeley. Gordon Burns – joined Ulster Television in his native Belfast in 1967 as a sports presenter, later presenting the station's flagship programme UTV Reports. He then moved to Granada Television, where he presented Granada Reports and also worked on World In Action in the 1970s, but he is best known as the long-serving host of Granada's prestigious quiz The Krypton Factor from 1977 until 1995. He joined BBC North West in 1997, becoming the main anchor on North West Tonight until his retirement in 2011. Judi Spiers – regular presenter and announcer, initially for Westward Television, then TSW, from 1977 until 1991, when she left to join the BBC. Peter Rowell – continuity announcer and daytime newsreader for HTV West from the late 1980s until he left in 2010 to join BBC Radio Bristol. He was jailed in 2012 on historical sexual assault charges.

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Mike Neville – joined Tyne Tees Television in 1959 as a young reporter; later became presenter of regional news programme before leaving for the BBC; returned to ITV in 1996 with his own programme on Tyne Tees until 2005. He died in 2017. Steve Rider – sports presenter and anchorman of ITV's football coverage, having previously been a long-serving main anchor on the BBC's Grandstand Sally Jones (journalist) – reporter for Westward Television, later becoming a main co-presenter on Central News during the early 1980s – she also reported for ITN during this period. She left to join BBC Breakfast in 1986 and became a Real Tennis world champion in 1993 – she also won the British and US Open Championships